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ARTS OP THE SORCERER, BACK .TO MIDDLE AGES, e Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, PARIS, September 15. An extraordinary murder, accompanied by sorcery, was revealed in the Metz courts, where a woman and her butcher lover were charged with murdering the former’s husband, a carter after efforts to kill him by witchcraft had failed. Tho wife admitted that, acting on the advice of a sorceress, she suspended a sheep’s lungs in a room draped in black, the lungs representing her husband’s heart; As the clock struck midnight she thrust twelve needles into the lungs. When the twelfth was driven in, which was to kill the man, she went into the bedroom, and was astonished to find him unharmed. She and her butcher lover then decided to murder him.
The sorceress was arrested, but was released after the wife’s confession.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18741, 17 September 1924, Page 7
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